Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen

Volume II: Society, Institutions, and Development

Edited by Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur

Celebrates the scope and influence of Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen's work

Includes contributions from leading figures across the social sciences

Contributions discuss Sen's ideas and further extend the influence of his work

Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen

Volume II: Society, Institutions, and Development

Edited by Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur

Description

Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly. He has engaged in policy dialogue and public debate, advancing the cause of a human development focused policy agenda, and a tolerant and democratic polity. This argumentative Indian has made the case for the poorest of the poor, and for plurality in cultural perspective. It is not surprising that he has won the highest awards, ranging from the Nobel Prize in Economics to the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor. This public recognition has gone hand in hand with the affection and admiration that Amartya's friends and students hold for him.

This volume of essays, written in honor of his 75th birthday by
his students and peers, covers the range of contributions that Sen has made to knowledge. They are written by some of the world's leading economists, philosophers and social scientists, and address topics such as ethics, welfare economics, poverty, gender, human development, society and politics. The second volume covers the topics of Human Development and Capabilities; Gender and Household; Growth, Poverty and Policy; and Society, Politics and History. It is a fitting tribute to Sen's own contributions to the discourse on Society, Institutions and Development.

Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen

Volume II: Society, Institutions, and Development

Edited by Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur

Table of Contents

Part I Human Development and Capabilities 1. Inter-Country Comparisons of Income Poverty Based on a Capability Approach, Muhammad Asali, Sanjay G. Reddy, and Sujata Visaria2. The Capability Approach and Political Economy of Human Development, Amiya Kumar Bagchi3. India-China: "The Art of Prolonging Life", Lincoln C. Chen4. Sustainable Human Well-being: An Interpretation of Capability Enhancement from a 'Stakeholders and Systems' Perspective, Kanchan Chopra5. Human Rights and Human Development, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr6. Entitlements and Capabilities: Young People in Post-Industrial Wales, Jocelyn Kynch7. Country Patterns of Behavior on Broader Dimensions of Human Development, Gustav Ranis, Emma Samman, and Frances Stewart8. Poverty
and Famines: An Extension, Ashutosh VarshneyPart II Gender and Household 9. Engaging with Sen on Gender Relations: Cooperative Conflicts, False Perceptions and Relative Capabilities, Bina Agarwal10. Family ties, incentives and development: a model of coerced altruism, Ingela Alger and Jörgen W. Weibull11. From "Harmony" to "Cooperative Conflicts" Amartya Sen's Contribution to Household Theory, Lourdes Beneria12. Famine, Widowhood, and Paid Work: Seeking Gender Justice in South Asia, Martha Alter Chen13. Time and Income: Empirical Evidence on Gender Poverty and Inequalities from a Capability Perspective, Enrica Chiappero Martinetti14. Death and Gender in Victorian England, Jane Humphries and Kirsty McNay15. Missing Women: Some Recent
Controversies on Levels and Trends in Gender Bias in Mortality, Stephan KlasenPart III Growth, Poverty and Policy 16. Challenges of Economic Development in Punjab, Isher Ahluwalia17. Growth, Distribution and Inclusiveness: Reflections on India's Experience, Montek Ahluwalia18. Economic Reforms, Poverty and Inequality in China and India, Pranab Bardhan19. Economics, Ethics and Climate Change, Simon Dietz, Cameron Hepburn, Nicholas Stern20. Has Development and Employment through Labour-Intensive Industrialization Become History?, Rizwanul Islam21. Imposed Environmental Standards and International Trade, Robert M. SolowPart IV Society, Politics and History 22. Pondering Poverty, Fighting Famines: Towards a New History of Economic Ideas,
Sugata Bose23. Identity, Violence and the Power of Illusion, Jonathan Glover24. Freedom and Equality: From Iqbal's Philosophy to Sen's Ethical Concerns, Ayesha Jalal25. Protective Security or Protection Rackets? War and Sovereignty, Mary Kaldor26. Democracy and its Indian Pasts, Sunil Khilnani27. The Clash Within: Democracy and the Hindu Right, Martha C. Nussbaum28. Engaging Impossibilities and Possibilities, Elinor Ostrom29. Agents into Principals: Democratizing Development in South Asia, Rehman Sobhan

Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen

Volume II: Society, Institutions, and Development

Edited by Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur

Author Information

Kaushik Basu is Professor of Economics and the C. Marks Professor of International Studies, Department of Economics, and Director, Center for Analytic Economics, Cornell University. He has held visiting positions at CORE (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), and the London School of Economics. He has been Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Princeton University, and M.I.T. In 1992 he founded the Centre for Development Economics in Delhi and was its first Executive Director. He is also a founding member of the Madras School of Economics. Ravi Kanbur is T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He has taught at the
Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Essex, Warwick, Princeton and Columbia and has served on the staff of the World Bank in several capacities, including as Director of the World Bank's World Development Report.